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i welcome back you're watching r t with me and now after gaining verbal endorsements from western nations the syrian opposition have begun receiving financial backing the french government allocating one and a half million dollars in a t.v. coalition france only became the first western power to officially recognize the alliance as the official representative of the syrian people russia was among the critics of the financial donation saying that supporting a movement to overthrow an existing government is unacceptable under international law professor paul sheldon foot from the california state university says that paris is only pursuing short term financial gulf. finance major interest would be to continue with sorenson your remote server throughout the world. but i don't
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think it really cured sir just as they didn't here in the case of libya all they were close to morrow i was going to operate they didn't really care who took over afterwards the. problem with the so-called syrian opposition leaders that they are not united the only thing unites the loop they would like to remove the current government they come from a very wide range of. religious viewpoints. viewpoint with their core jims. their average want to succeed in syria they were not be able to come together and they would be in no round of fighting to determine who will. dominate all the other groups. well libya is also welcoming aid from its western backers with washington assisting the country to improve its military the revolution torn state is said to be hosting hundreds of u.s. soldiers training the new libyan army artie's gan she can report on why america is
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so happy to help. the pentagon's new outlook forget about full scale invasion is and large footprint occupations instead think of special ops and fluffy are the next destination libya the obama administration has received congressional approval to allocate money for a special unit reportedly made up of some five hundred people who will train the country's forces according to one libyan militia commander a team of americans is already in the country looking for recruits a major obstacle in their wary a vastly divided society there isn't an army and libya now and the army is not going to be because whenever you try and get militias which have been beaten says to a variety of rays of things that the national interest so they have allegiance to a dr or to a sect or to a religion rather than having allegiance to the nation or to the country you cannot
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build an army but with training and aid fully via the us we have more pragmatic goals then the nineteen the army you were just teaching them the best way to fight this war training is actually because it's really about not so much about you know teaching people how to use rifles and how to use new equipment it's all about really more about indoctrination make up an e.a. each one of the children u.s. uses and as you know very successfully. to ensure that the elite in the countries concerned stay loyal to the us. a lot in terms of foreign policy to state law to them in terms of opening their economies up. to u.s. multinationals will be and will be very important. and for the united states and yes it will start buying american arms and substantial qualities liers lots and lots of money to spend according to the state department this year along the u.s. spent six point three billion dollars financing foreign armies it argues investing
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in foreign militaries helps build. better alliances and further american interests abroad from the point of view of the u.s. government of course it's very useful to have other countries militaries integrated into the us they get the training then they get the equipment they get the arms it's the full package the idea of proxy armies is not new to the very best part record of training foreign armies has hardly been flawless you have the school of americas for instance which is trained all the the armies that became the torturers of latin america that started after world war two i would say the training troops is especially in the middle east in the case of iraq or in afghanistan something of a catastrophe it's premised on a fantasy that if the u.s. buys the uniforms gives them the guns provides in the training that somehow these will be reliable forces you can see in the case of afghanistan big governments are united the governments are partners but the afghan troops don't consider the americans to be their friends in fact they consider them to be cultural aliens who are occupying their country more than fifty coalition troops were killed this year
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alone by members of the afghan security forces or it is out that the obama administration wants to leave around ten thousand troops in afghanistan to continue to train afghan forces and carry out special operations after twenty fourteen when according to the obama administration american forces are supposed to have completely left the country the afghan government has less than two years to agree or reject the idea the u.s. government may be looking at training armies abroad as the smart investment sort of like outsourcing makes sense in business it's cheaper than having u.s. troops on the ground no need to explain dead troops coming home makes sense from a lot of perspectives but that strategy has backfired more than once in the past eliminating populations that didn't want to see their military become a student of washington's wars in washington i'm going to check out. let's take a look at some other news making headlines this hour. multiple explosions have
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rocked a u.s. military base in the city of jalalabad in eastern afghanistan that's according to nato officials police say five suicide bombers breached the anti security barrier at the airfield in cars packed with explosives the taliban has claimed their fighters are behind the attack he had unclear whether anyone was killed or injured at the base north korea says it will try to launch a long range rocket later this month after a previous attempt failed the move will likely further strained relations with washington and neighboring south korea the u.s. has previously suspended food aid to the state after pyongyang went ahead with a rocket test in april so has meanwhile nearly tripled its own ballistic missile range after a recent deal with the us rebels in congo have ended their occupation of the city of goma after an agreement was brokered with the government the pullout paves the way for a un peacekeeping contingent and the local army to move been less than two weeks
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after the rebels took control of the militants say they seek to become part of the official army that many believe the group are sponsored by one day in its effort to gain influence in the mineral rich region. protesters have clashed with police in mexico is the country's new president pena nieto was sworn in several thousand demonstrators threw molotov cocktails and rocks at security forces in a bid to throw the same ring ceremony police responded to gas to disperse the crowd injuring around twenty people the protesters are unhappy that yet a party have returned to power after a twelve year absence from office the new president says the party has evolved after opponents criticize it for being author terry and and corrupt. now silicon valley has long been the symbol of all things high tech in the united states and further afield and while the majority of those who helped create the digital haven and foreign entrepreneurs america has become increasingly reluctant to welcome new
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talent from abroad medina reports the silicon valley. fun lots of sharing helping each other even competitors will hope each other some of the biggest brands on the planet and all instantly associated with america and surprisingly the majority were created by foreigners. jerry yang who was born in taipei surrogate britain whose parents came from russia when he was six or pierre omidyar an iranian born in paris silicon valley has thrived thanks largely to immigrants people who came here with their dreams and had the drive to make them a reality they transformed this place into an unrivaled for high tech development the birthplace of global pioneers one person who helps those outsiders to get a foot in the door is german born and how it could blend struck she says the valley
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moves so fast that it seems skilled foreigners springing up left right and center that she average day and there is a simple reason such success is coming their way so many of the of the indians and chinese that come in the others they make these great companies and then they hire people so they are really giving work i think they're hungry for the words they want to succeed they're driven the valley's biggest rice came with the boom of immigrants in the ninety's that brought innovations in software and internet services the numbers speak for themselves just over half of the companies found it in silicon valley from the mid ninety's to the mid two thousand had founders born abroad believe us research says the reason to one for him born inventor behind three quarters off after a new patient and like for many others getting impatient for a start up is what brought julia to palo alto from project to school smart wall and works is a messaging tool for those who want to avoid social networks most of the people
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that are that i see are foreigners and also there are a lot of americans that are not from here so they're also coming it's it's not a matter of nationality here is a matter of the real skills that you but there are some clouds on the california sky currently over half of foreign born inventiveness face visa hurdles the end. knowing economic recession has broad deep fears at home and about much needed jobs going into hands that have come from abroad makes me hard for maining to understand that foreigners can actually bring benefits to times when america so desperately needs them but i think that's something that white america doesn't get they don't understand why. because they don't because i think that a lot of their fears are still oh they're taking our jobs away america prides itself on being a melting pot the country where thousands flocked for a better life but u.s.
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immigration policy may put an end to all that you know question r.t. well stay with us because in a few moments artie's exclusive interview with the world's top whistleblower she did a song which. parents versus social workers docu nabbing last stop get any nearer than that kidnapping children have become prizes to fight full why does the law or threaten families the social for it to see me in the form of they have a right of will hold me more me faith in what they have any kind of suspicion about the well being of the of your children are often a just better at bringing up kids than their own mom and dad in from what we have
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an industry that is so. concentrated on the other for trade with children. who go to fever. times thousands into slaves. my father but also among brothers involved in the lives of men since i started working in a mine i stated i look at it and feel multinationals. make it a cash cow to be milked dry and if i think that in this country is gold medal logie as an environmental cost which is unacceptable to local business was labeled illegal and controlled by criminals in order to protect our lives our families and to work in piece of. news blog post that we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups what price is colombia going to pay for.
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the modest effect on our t.v. . tonight i'm inside the ecuadorian embassy talking to julian assange she's been cooped up here for almost six months while he's been here though he hasn't been sitting idle he's written a new book called cypherpunks freedom and the future of the internet it's actually based on one of the shows that he made for r.t. now julian you're saying basically in your book that the internet can in slave us but the internet is just a thing right it's a soulless piece of equipment who was a real in slavers. the people who control the interception of the internet and to some degree also physically control the big data warehouses and international fiber optic lines so we all think of the internet as some kind of pathetic rome where we
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can throw out ideas and communications and with pagers and books and they exist somewhere out there actually they exist on web servers in new york nergal your in beijing and information comes to us through satellite connections or through fiber optic cables so who are physically controls this controls the realm of our ideas and communications and whoever is able to sit on those communications channels can intercept entire nations and that's the new game in town as far as state spying is concerned intercepting entire nations not individuals and just this sounds like a kind of futuristic scenario but you're saying that if you just already have i mean the united states national security agency has been doing this for some thirty twenty years but now it's spread to even mid-size nations even gadhafi libya was employing illegal system which is produced by french company emesis. push there in two thousand and nine advertised in its internal documentation as
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a nationwide interception system so what's happened over the last ten years is. every decreasing cost of intercepting each individual now to the degree where is cheaper to intercept every individual than it is to pick particular people to spy upon and what's the what's the alternative to sort of utopian alternatives that you would put for it so the utopian alternative is to try and gain independence for this for the internet we to sort of clear independence versus the rest of the world and that's really quite important because if you think about what is human civilization that makes it clean to sensually human. and civilized it is our shared knowledge that intellectual knowledge is something we're all putting on to the internet and so if we can try and decouple that from. the brute nature of
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states and their cronies then i think we really have hope for a global civilization if on the other hand the mere security guards you know the people who control the guns are able to take control of our intellectual life take control of all the ways in which we communicate with each other then of course you can see how dreadfully outcome will be because we're just happened to one nation it will happen to every nation at once it is happening to the nation at once as far as spying is concerned because now every nation is merging its society with internet infrastructure and in what way are we as social naïve internet users if you like and i do you from that obviously but kind of willingly collaborating with these collectors of personal data you know we all have a facebook account we all have telephones which can be tracked people think well yeah i use facebook and maybe the f.b.i. if they made a request could come and get an interview on the much more aware of it now of course because of betrayers but that's not the problem the problem is that all the
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time everyone nearly everything they do on the internet is permanently recorded every web search to know what you were thinking one year two days three months ago and you don't know but google knows it remembers the national security agency intercepts the request if it flowed over u.s. border it knows will be. a national security agency whistleblower who was research paid for the national security agency's signals intelligence division describes this as turning key totalitarianism that all the infrastructure has been built for absolute totalitarianism it's just a matter of turning the key and actually the case has already been turned into. that and it is now affecting people who are targeted for us drone strikes organizations like wiki leaks. national security reporters who are having their sources investigated is already partly turned and you know the question is would
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will go all the way but has it been built really by corporations and kind of unwittingly subscribed to by people say in order to advertise products to make money or has it been built deliberately by governments for the sole purpose of a it's it's both i mean the variance in interest rate for the bokes abounds in infrastructure there are hundreds of companies involved in that business they have secretly international conferences they have perspective they give to the intelligence agencies that we have obtained and published this year together with privacy international the bureau of investigative journalism also the wall street journal has done some good work on this building devices that they advertise to intercept entire nations to install the data from those intercepts permanently strategic interception because it's cheaper so it's a. it's a combined corporate government amalgam that's one of the problems one of the reasons it's so unaccountable is it crosses boundaries and then you also have
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google and facebook. started out predominately serving the public but also have developed side projects to service the u.s. intelligence com complex and individuals are constantly pushing their thoughts into google as each thing that they want to research has pushed the emails in facebook their social relationships. in under a dollar of. spied out of it facebook is completely out of from even the worst spying nation the richness and sophistication of relationships expressed and willingly contributed to. know but not with informed consent people don't actually know when you don't quite facebook to share this to your friends. that's what it says it doesn't say share this to state agencies it doesn't say share this to friends and cronies of state agencies how has the organized power do you think to stop this these things that you're looking out well for some you know
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if there's political will everything is possible so if we get the political will then of course you know those agencies can be dismantled very aggressively distillation of policing can be. pushed upon them in some. regions of the world such as latin america perhaps that's a possibility there's a certain democratic tendency which ecuador is part of that might do that but in general i think the prognosis is very grim and we really are at this moment where it can go one way or the other way. to a degree. i think perhaps the best that we can be short if we work of achieving is that some of us are protected it's not necessary that all of society is covered and the waterside is protect what is necessary is the critical accountability components of the society that stop it going down the tubes entirely that those people are protected so those include corruption investigation is
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journalists activists and political parties these have got to be protected if they're not protected then it's all loss is there a way that i can protect myself without knowing a lot about compete as well a little bit but the first thing to be aware of is how much you're giving away you know the first way to protect yourself is go ok well i'll discuss that in person or have a facebook chat ok i'll discuss this using some forms of encrypted chat like t.r. and on facebook that. you can down go to talk project dot org and download the encrypted anonymizing software it's slower than normal but for things like internet chat it's fine because you're not downloading very much at once so there are ways of doing that is what is really necessary. ever for that for those to be properly developed is for there to be enough market demand it's same situation as.
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washing your hands that once upon a time before the bacterial theory of disease before we understood that out there invisibly was all these bacteria that is trying to cause us harm just like states mass states or violence is out there invisible and trying to cause society allows for harm. no one bothered to wash their hands first process was discovery second process education third process a market demand is created as a result of education which means that experts can start to manufacture so then people can buy and use it so this is where we're at now which is we've got to create education amongst people so there can be a market demand so that people others can be encouraged to produce easy to use cryptographic technology that is capable of protecting a significant not everyone but a significant number of people from mass state spying and if we're not able to protect a significant number of people from mass state spying in the basic democratic.
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and civilian institutions that we're used to and not not in the west i'm no gore fire of the west but you know also side he's going to crumble away they will crumble away and they will do so all at once and that's. that's an extremely dangerous phenomena it's not often where all the world goes down the tube all at once usually you have a few countries that are ok you can bootstrap civilization again from we're very close to just past the second anniversary of cable gaze and since then that this war on whistleblowers in this state surveillance has seemed to have got us do you think that something is largest cable kates could ever happen again and that would have a similar impact yes if i play next year what's the time next year. when you go into it but hopefully earlier rather than later when the successes of wiki
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leaks. shouldn't be viewed merely as a demonstration of our organizations the reality or the realty of the activist community on the internet. they are also a function of this hoarding of information. by these national security states you know the reason there was so much information to leak the reason it could be leaked all at once is because they had hoarded so much why had they hoarded so much wealth to gain extra power through knowledge that they wanted their own knowledge internally to be easily accessible to their people to be searchable so as much power could be extracted from it as possible. the you know we hear exude attempts to redress the imbalance of power by taking what's inside these very powerful institutions and giving them to. the
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commons people in general so we can understand how our world works and stop takeover by these powerful institutions but it's a function of how much knowledge these powerful institutions have accumulated and what are you going to do jim when you said that you won't leave the ecuadorian embassy and tell the u.s. troops any charges that they say any any investigation against you you just going to stay here forever well i hope that there is enough political pressure and the u.s. government sees sense sees that it is to destroy any goodwill that remains towards it as a result of its persecution and investigation of wiki leaks and its associates i think it really does have to drop the investigation you know over the past six months in particular you can see the sort of. the arab history and. the u.s.
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and eric holder are going to end up on the wrong side of history i don't know if they want that on their record and you released a statement i think there's been reports in the media over the last day or so that you've got a long condition but you've released a statement saying that that's actually not the case to talk but how does this show knew what would potentially happen if you did have a health scare do you think that you would be able to get treatment was there my my particular personal conditions that were not very interesting obviously this circumstance in the embassy is difficult. and a long of a long term i suppose could be very difficult but. you know i've spoken to a soft thank you very much.
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